Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de> said: > /usr/sbin is an invention of Linux.
Hmm, I think Solaris had it, and I know DEC Unix had it. IIRC /sbin came about for static bins, but then also to move config binaries out of /etc. The bins not needed for early system startup moved to /usr/sbin. I don't recall anything in /usr/sbin ever being static. /usr/sbin also got other programs that had been in /usr/lib (such as sendmail) when cleaning up. > We really should get rid of the destinction, and make all of /bin, > /sbin, /usr/sbin a symlink to /usr/bin, and then never bother again > about $PATH orders and namespace collisions... As I said before, there's still some consolehelper stuff that requires entries in both /usr/bin and /usr/sbin to work. -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
